Stream: community

Topic: Custom Identifier generation style per provider

Patrick Kibies (Apr 22 2024 at 09:11):

Dear Community,
I am currently workin on launching tudodata, the Dataverse instance of TU Dortmund University and have some questions. With great pleasure I learned the 6.2 is able to use multiple PID providers, which can be selected on Dataverse Collection level. For some reason outside my scope of decision we need custom PID generation styles per Dataverse collection.

As a far as I understand https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/installation/config.html#dataverse-pid-identifier-generation-style correctly, there still can be just one generateIdentifierFromStoredProcedure() in the database, which makes it difficult to adapt the generation styles to pre-existing schemes.

Is there any solution yet (meaning that I wasn't able to find the correct place in the docs) or is there a plan to add support for multiple database-stored functions?

Thanks a lot for any info on that matter!

Oliver Bertuch (Apr 22 2024 at 09:52):

Nope, that is not yet possible. If you would like to create a feature request, please feel free to do so in our issue tracker!

Oliver Bertuch (Apr 22 2024 at 09:53):

In case you would be able to contribute development time, a PR would be welcome. (Please discuss in issue first, also mentioning @qqmyers would help.)

Oliver Bertuch (Apr 22 2024 at 09:57):

Relevant code points to look at:

• https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/516a73fe52b1a70971e69c161d22b6ca11b9cd27/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/DvObjectServiceBean.java#L392-L396
• https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/516a73fe52b1a70971e69c161d22b6ca11b9cd27/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/pidproviders/AbstractPidProvider.java#L411-L425

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 22 2024 at 10:51):

@Patrick Kibies yes, just to reiterate, creating an issue at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues would be a great place to start if you're willing! Good luck with your installation!

Patrick Kibies (Apr 22 2024 at 11:09):

Thanks a lot, I'll find out in how far we're able to contribute development and come up with an issue as the very next step.

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 22 2024 at 13:51):

@Patrick Kibies thanks for creating this issue! Feature Request/Idea: Stored procedure for Identifier generation per PID provider #10514

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 22 2024 at 13:52):

I edited it to add a link back here to Zulip. I hope you don't mind.

Patrick Kibies (Apr 25 2024 at 09:09):

Philip Durbin schrieb:

I edited it to add a link back here to Zulip. I hope you don't mind.

No, that's absolutely fine and a good idea to reference the discussions in both directions, thx!

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